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Wordle Probably the oldest and most popular of the word cloud creators. Word clouds can then be edited w/ different fonts, colors, and layouts, and even shared w/ others online.



**Word Mosaic**

WordSwift A excellent site for making word clouds and then editing them by altering the criteria in how it's created. Pictures are also generated to best represent your word cloud.

Tagul Similar to Tagxedo, a very easy to use site to create different shaped word clouds.

Tagxedo A great way to make word clouds from sites, different social networks, and then change shape to meet your needs (ie, star).


Worditout A nice site for making word clouds by just copying/pasting text.

VocabGrabber A wonderful site similar to Word Sift in making word clouds. However, the clouds generated are color coded for best displaying clouds.

Tag Galaxy An innovative site that visually represents words in a galaxy style format. A must see!!!external image alternative_pedagogies_word_cloud_4.jpg

Tag Crowd A simple to use site for creating word clouds by pasting in text or a web page URL.

Quintura Is a visual search engine where results are returned in a word cloud style format.

TwitterSheep A fun site that generates it results by keywords found in bios from a user's followers.

You Are Your Words- American Heritage Dictionary invites you to create a self-portrait using your words